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3 unusual facts about Morus alba


Chinese mulberry

Morus alba, the most commonly cultivated mulberry in China, and the preferred feed for silkworms

M. alba

Morus alba, the white mulberry, a short-lived, fast-growing, small to medium sized mulberry tree species native to northern China

Morus alba

The "White Mulberry Tree" is title of a crucial chapter in Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers!, in which two forbidden lovers are killed, a reference to the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.


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The most common species of trees are Dalbergia sissoo (sheesham), Acacia nilotica (kikar), both members of the Fabaceae native to the Indian subcontinent, white mulberry (Morus alba), popular in cultivation throughout South Asia, or Eucalyptus and Populus species.


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